Bullerengue, the percussive, female-led folk tradition developed in Black Caribbean communities, was passed down to the legendary Petrona Martinez like a sacred family heirloom. Growing up in San Cayetano, Colombia, in the 1940s,she’d sit with her grandmother and great-grandmother in what’s called a rueda, or circle, where the women would …
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